Something of Value
Publisher: Lightyear Press; Buccaneer Books
Published: June 1991
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
ISBN-13: 9780899668161
Subjects: Modern fiction; Hobbies/Crafts; Crafts & Hobbies; Fiction - General; General
First sentence: Peter McKenzie stripped off his faded shorts and his green drill shirt and reached for a bowl of ocher mud which had been softened to a pliant paste with water.
Description: Kenya . . . paradise in Africa. Paradise for men and women who had worked hard, who played hard, and loved hard. Paradise for people like the McKenzies, with a fine farm and comforts and a lusty, growing family, where Peter, their son, grew up with Kimani, the headman's son.
But evil was stirring in the forests and mountains, and in the shacks of the Nairobi slums. The Mau Mau was beginning to take its terrible hold on the people.
There are things in this book to shock and disturb, but there has been no exaggeration, no heightening of the horrors. Robert Ruark lived in Kenya for several years, and writes with equal sympathy and understanding of the problems of both settlers and natives.